Iowa was a straw poll, no delegates were selected.
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Wrong. Iowa had a straw poll months ago. Their CAUCUS last week decided the delegates, but they are assigned proportionally. So Huckabee got 13, Mitt 9, Thompson 5, McCain 5, Ron Paul 4, Guilianni 1 . . . it counted!
Techinically, Iowa doesn’t select the convention delegates until June at the State Convention. The precincts are free to make their own rules regarding how the state convention delegates are bound/not bound at the state convention..
From the following:
http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P08/IA-R.phtml#0103
....Here’s how we estimate the delegate count on 3 January 2008: (Based on the January 2008 Iowa Caucus results from iowavotes2008.com. Note that zero national convention delegates are allocated during the Precinct Caucuses - national convention delegates are first elected in June.)....
One can assume they will be somewhere close to the Jan. Caucus results but not assume that is 100% the case.
“Wrong. Iowa had a straw poll months ago. Their CAUCUS last week decided the delegates, but they are assigned proportionally”
Iowa Republicans, who have 40 delegates, conducted a straw poll but elected no convention delegates Thursday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/05/us/politics/05cnd-wyoming.html